Furthermore, ads perpetuate the idea that life's purpose is to work your ass of so you can consume an endless stream of useless (and sometimes actively harmful) crap. They do their part in making people waste their lives chasing after a winning lottery ticket for the benefit of the 1% at the top who run the lottery. They feed various neurosis and addictions to manipulate people into spending their hard-earned cash to try and fix imaginary problems by illogical means of buying an unrelated product.
An ad campaign is basically information warfare. People disliking them is simply their self-protection instincts at work.
...and yet we're here, at an Ad-supported site, posting away and using bandwidth which has to be paid for by some means.
While I agree that advertising can do more harm than good when it trades on someone's already fragile self-worth, there are forms of advertising which are not soul-sucking or promoting conspicuous consumption (I'd also submit that a lot of useless consumption is based on point-of-sale impulse or what your neighbors or family have bought, not what someone saw on TV). Sandwich boards and overhead business signs are advertising. And PSA's and pro-bono non-profit ads do good. So it's not all evil.
All grain, while being superior to extract in the way you can build a very sophisticated flavor profile with a well-thought grain bill, takes a fair amount of work. I usually have to spend the better part of a day brewing an all-grain batch. I assume that as they're trying to run the country, especially in an election year, a 60 minute extract boil versus a mash-sparge time of approaching four hours, plus a 90 minute boil makes more sense.
I'll admit, however, that I'd use actual hops instead of pellets, and bloom or "start" the ale yeast before pitching (I don't know if ale yeast is safely pitched dry)-- or, just use liquid yeast.
Pellets are real hops, just compressed into pellet form. Falconer's Flight is only available in pellet form, as it's a blend of several different hops. A lot of imported hops are only available in pellets. Leaf, pellet, doesn't matter unless you're using a hopback, then you need leaf.
And yes, you can pitch ale yeast dry. You just might not get consistent results, like you would using a starter.
Alternative will never replace fossil fuels. It's classic supply and demand that even you should understand.
Alternative energies will never replace fossil fossil fuels, right up until the moment they do, and then they will. That's a simple enough example of how a planet of a fixed size will always have finite limits on mineral resources that I'm sure you should be able to understand.
I doubt it will force patent reform, as there is quite a bit of money in patent trolling these days, but if Google can use this to get Apple to BTFO in its desire to sue every thing that moves, then Google's performing a badly-needed service.
What you're forgetting is that assuming all other systems in your body are healthy, your kidneys will excrete the excess water, along with urea, in order to balance all pressures (and electrolytes), and fairly quickly at that. It's when the heart is in failure that excess blood volume results in edema and diuretics are required. Drinking four liters of water a day (almost 136 fluid ounces for the Americans playing at home, or a little over 11-12 ounce glasses), over the course of the day, results in nothing more traumatic than additional trips to the loo.
You might want to read Jonathan Haidt. It's the reverse. Conservatives are (generally) risk-averse and Liberals are (generally) more open to change and experience. The reasons why run a bit deeper, but it has a polarizing effect (as seen by your post), and rather than taking each groups strong characteristics and using them to compliment each other, adherents to each ideology tend to aim for the throat each time one disagrees with the other.
Not so much ignorant as ignoring. They ignore the 90% of history which doesn't support their world view, and every other economic theory which contradicts the one they choose to believe.
Much the same way that while all English-language novels use the same words, it's their arrangement that governs their uniqueness. Craigslist isn't trying to prevent posters from selling their items on other sites; they're trying to prevent scrapping sites from re-posting content and selling ads to support that.
You're probably too young to remember Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw Haw, and Assange's work with Press TV and other agents of our enemies marks him out as the absolute worst of the worst.
Unless a lot of the/. readership is in their late 70's-early 80's or older, no one here is going to remember Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw-Haw, outside of historical references.
That aside, it's a specious comparison. Both Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw were propagandists working for specific governments in an attempt to demoralize soldiers and citizens. Assange is a free agent ostensibly working to create a method of exposure where governments and multi-national companies can no longer operate in the shadows. And really, "agents of our enemies?" In the words of Walt Kelly, "we have met the enemy and he is us."
It's information. A Russian was arrested in Cyprus for a crime allegedly committed against a US corporation on servers operating in the US. I'd say it's germain. When dealing with international law issues, nationality is important. If his nationality was then being used to somehow intimate that people from a particular country are criminals and thieves, then yes, I'd agree there was unnecessary bias.
Toss all incumbents out. Demand term limits. Eliminate career politicians.
Because of course anyone who replaces them will spring from the forehead of Athena, walk on water then turn it into wine, poop vanilla ice cream, and give us all sweet fuzzy kittens to make us happy when we're sad.
Why not try to create a better informed electorate? One which understands that software patents deter competition and stifle innovation.
No they don't, otherwise it would have happened now. At what point of watching theory after theory, and economic model after economic model get relegated to the scrap heap do you realize that economic models won't work in a system which is being consistently gamed by those who can afford to buy the influence to continue gaming it? It's like a rigged poker game. You can spout probability and statistics of certain hands coming up all you want, but if those hands never come up, or the house's shill keeps winning while you keep losing, you have to admit at some point that someone is deliberately working to ensure you won't win.
It's not for my lack of understanding why it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense because your argument is based on a very subjective and factually inaccurate view of recent history.
One of the tenets of Keynesian economics that is sound is not to adopt austerity measures in the face of recession or depression. The time for austerity is when the economy is strong, and there are the tax receipts and free-flow of capital to pay down the debt assumed to spend your way out of a recession (and that's the only way out of a recession; it's what Clinton did to get us out of the recession of 1990-94, and then used the late 90's boom to pay down debt and balance the budget). The reason we've gone into double-dip now is because of this misplaced (and frankly mind-boggling) belief that after a decade of deficit spending while consistently reducing income, we can some how entice those who hold a record amount of capital back into spending by not priming the pump through government incentives. When the private sector is not spending, and people are out of work and not spending, who else is going to spend? The economy we've built is dependent upon consistent expansion and growth. When you have neither, you have nothing. This is not complicated math here. The fact there there seems to be a large segment of the population willingly suspending disbelief about conservative economic initiatives and principles is clear indication why we're going down in flames. If you're a student of history, you can why we are where we are now because a Republican-controlled congress made the same kind of demands on FDR, and if it weren't for the eventual wartime debt and spending, would have plunged us into a second great depression. Yet when you have a propaganda machine pumping out misinformation about what is really happening in the market place, it's going to remain this way until it either collapses or people finally question why we've built a corporate welfare state that pays to ensure it's participants can continue to game the system.
Explain to me using your logical model of economics why it made good economic sense for Barclays to manipulate LIBOR?
Thank you for establishing the answer to the ages-old question of "which came first, the economy or the eggs needed to feed the workforce?"
Today, the present, not back in the good old neolithic hunter-gatherer days, we are in a stagnant economy because while there's record amounts of capital littering balance sheets, very few business owners are investing in expanding the economy, because there's no demand, and that's because because the majority of the segment of society which drives consumer spending has no money due to stagnant wages, higher energy costs, and subsequently is not spending like it used to. So there's your death spiral. You can talk about economic theory all you want, the current numbers available show a much different picture.
Remember what happens when Walmart sets shop in a small town.
Prices on many goods go down and everyone in the community effectively has a higher standard of living?
Just like everything on FOX News or in the WSJ is not factual or really news, not everything written in economic theory really happens the ways it's posited, or isn't mitigated by all sorts of presently unseen or dynamic variables.
Meanwhile good ol' brick and mortar lets you have the goodies in your hot little hands now and often work out better on returns.
Which also means a lot of the money made (or all of it, if it's a locally-owned business) stays in the local economy, which can mean families, schools, and your community in general benefit. Sales tax paid online goes into a state's general coffer and stays there, whereas part of the money collected locally, whether it's from a national/international chain or a local mom-and-pop store, goes back to the county/municipality where it was collected originally.
In fact, eliminating jobs while providing the same or better service is considered to be a top priority of economics in general. The less labor it takes to provide service X means the less cost it takes, as long as there's competition it means lower prices for consumers.
So Economic Theory 1, Actual Economy 0. Awesome.
Without jobs, who cares how low consumer prices drop for whatever reason, and who cares whether it's Amazon, Walmart, or the corner mini-mart owning online markets? No jobs mean no demand, which means no growth, which means no jobs, which means no demand. Rinse, lather repeat.
Note to Randroids: We got into this mess by lack of government regulation, not because of it. Don't believe me? Go ask Phil Gramm, or better yet, Phil Gramm's wife.
The issue is why people feel compelled to self-medicate. A beer or glass of wine or a dram of whiskey can be food and/or something to be enjoyed. Or it can be abused as a drug. Anything in excess, whether it be food, alcohol, weed, shopping, sex, exercise, etc, especially if it's being used to check out of the reality of one's life, is dangerous. Granted, pounding a bottle of Jack and running 10K may have opposite effects on the body, but if you're checking out, then you aren't dealing with the organic neurological and/or dysfunctional emotional issues.
Whether weed is more benign than alcohol hardly matters if your inclination is to wake and bake, slack at work, let the kids cook dinner for themselves while you sleep off a bong-hit or any of the myriad other chronic stoner check-outs.
I say treat emotional/mental illnesses as we would high blood pressure or any other disease. I bet if the stigma for treating behavioral health issues were removed, we'd see less in the way of substance abuse, and lifestyle diseases such as Type II Diabetes and obesity would start dropping in reported cases, because then we'd finally admit that the brain is the most important organ in the body, and its health governs much of the overall health of the body. We'd also notice a drop in child abuse, spousal abuse, personality disorders, and see a lot higher quality of life.
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And before that it was pneumatic tube travel under the sea, and everyone speaking Esperanto and commuting to work in their own personal helicopter.
The future always ends up looking remarkably like the present, just with a few more cool toys, and a higher degree of complexity to our lives.
So in other words, he tendered his public/private debts.
And those who traded with him rendered his tender.
Furthermore, ads perpetuate the idea that life's purpose is to work your ass of so you can consume an endless stream of useless (and sometimes actively harmful) crap. They do their part in making people waste their lives chasing after a winning lottery ticket for the benefit of the 1% at the top who run the lottery. They feed various neurosis and addictions to manipulate people into spending their hard-earned cash to try and fix imaginary problems by illogical means of buying an unrelated product.
An ad campaign is basically information warfare. People disliking them is simply their self-protection instincts at work.
...and yet we're here, at an Ad-supported site, posting away and using bandwidth which has to be paid for by some means.
While I agree that advertising can do more harm than good when it trades on someone's already fragile self-worth, there are forms of advertising which are not soul-sucking or promoting conspicuous consumption (I'd also submit that a lot of useless consumption is based on point-of-sale impulse or what your neighbors or family have bought, not what someone saw on TV). Sandwich boards and overhead business signs are advertising. And PSA's and pro-bono non-profit ads do good. So it's not all evil.
They'll quit when people stop doing business with them. Based on their sales, I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
All grain, while being superior to extract in the way you can build a very sophisticated flavor profile with a well-thought grain bill, takes a fair amount of work. I usually have to spend the better part of a day brewing an all-grain batch. I assume that as they're trying to run the country, especially in an election year, a 60 minute extract boil versus a mash-sparge time of approaching four hours, plus a 90 minute boil makes more sense.
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's the best they're going to feel all day."
-Frank Sinatra.
I'll admit, however, that I'd use actual hops instead of pellets, and bloom or "start" the ale yeast before pitching (I don't know if ale yeast is safely pitched dry)-- or, just use liquid yeast.
Pellets are real hops, just compressed into pellet form. Falconer's Flight is only available in pellet form, as it's a blend of several different hops. A lot of imported hops are only available in pellets. Leaf, pellet, doesn't matter unless you're using a hopback, then you need leaf.
And yes, you can pitch ale yeast dry. You just might not get consistent results, like you would using a starter.
Alternative will never replace fossil fuels. It's classic supply and demand that even you should understand.
Alternative energies will never replace fossil fossil fuels, right up until the moment they do, and then they will. That's a simple enough example of how a planet of a fixed size will always have finite limits on mineral resources that I'm sure you should be able to understand.
I doubt it will force patent reform, as there is quite a bit of money in patent trolling these days, but if Google can use this to get Apple to BTFO in its desire to sue every thing that moves, then Google's performing a badly-needed service.
If only Apple would look at the Wright Brothers as an example of what happens to you when you attempt to restrain competition by enforcing patents.
Actually, in the Puget Sound, caffeine comes courtesy of a Starbucks on every corner: http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/3617/20120807/caffeine-pollution-pacific-waters.htm. Artificial flavor esters are also found in the water.
What you're forgetting is that assuming all other systems in your body are healthy, your kidneys will excrete the excess water, along with urea, in order to balance all pressures (and electrolytes), and fairly quickly at that. It's when the heart is in failure that excess blood volume results in edema and diuretics are required. Drinking four liters of water a day (almost 136 fluid ounces for the Americans playing at home, or a little over 11-12 ounce glasses), over the course of the day, results in nothing more traumatic than additional trips to the loo.
You might want to read Jonathan Haidt. It's the reverse. Conservatives are (generally) risk-averse and Liberals are (generally) more open to change and experience. The reasons why run a bit deeper, but it has a polarizing effect (as seen by your post), and rather than taking each groups strong characteristics and using them to compliment each other, adherents to each ideology tend to aim for the throat each time one disagrees with the other.
The problem is that government funded science hasn't really done that much for us. Most of US science is and always was privately funded.
Yeah, that big, stupid government-funded Apollo program really set privatized science back decades, didn't it?
Libertarians are hilariously ignorant...
Not so much ignorant as ignoring. They ignore the 90% of history which doesn't support their world view, and every other economic theory which contradicts the one they choose to believe.
Much the same way that while all English-language novels use the same words, it's their arrangement that governs their uniqueness. Craigslist isn't trying to prevent posters from selling their items on other sites; they're trying to prevent scrapping sites from re-posting content and selling ads to support that.
You're probably too young to remember Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw Haw, and Assange's work with Press TV and other agents of our enemies marks him out as the absolute worst of the worst.
Unless a lot of the /. readership is in their late 70's-early 80's or older, no one here is going to remember Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw-Haw, outside of historical references.
That aside, it's a specious comparison. Both Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw were propagandists working for specific governments in an attempt to demoralize soldiers and citizens. Assange is a free agent ostensibly working to create a method of exposure where governments and multi-national companies can no longer operate in the shadows. And really, "agents of our enemies?" In the words of Walt Kelly, "we have met the enemy and he is us."
It's information. A Russian was arrested in Cyprus for a crime allegedly committed against a US corporation on servers operating in the US. I'd say it's germain. When dealing with international law issues, nationality is important. If his nationality was then being used to somehow intimate that people from a particular country are criminals and thieves, then yes, I'd agree there was unnecessary bias.
Toss all incumbents out. Demand term limits. Eliminate career politicians.
Because of course anyone who replaces them will spring from the forehead of Athena, walk on water then turn it into wine, poop vanilla ice cream, and give us all sweet fuzzy kittens to make us happy when we're sad.
Why not try to create a better informed electorate? One which understands that software patents deter competition and stifle innovation.
No they don't, otherwise it would have happened now. At what point of watching theory after theory, and economic model after economic model get relegated to the scrap heap do you realize that economic models won't work in a system which is being consistently gamed by those who can afford to buy the influence to continue gaming it? It's like a rigged poker game. You can spout probability and statistics of certain hands coming up all you want, but if those hands never come up, or the house's shill keeps winning while you keep losing, you have to admit at some point that someone is deliberately working to ensure you won't win.
It's not for my lack of understanding why it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense because your argument is based on a very subjective and factually inaccurate view of recent history. One of the tenets of Keynesian economics that is sound is not to adopt austerity measures in the face of recession or depression. The time for austerity is when the economy is strong, and there are the tax receipts and free-flow of capital to pay down the debt assumed to spend your way out of a recession (and that's the only way out of a recession; it's what Clinton did to get us out of the recession of 1990-94, and then used the late 90's boom to pay down debt and balance the budget). The reason we've gone into double-dip now is because of this misplaced (and frankly mind-boggling) belief that after a decade of deficit spending while consistently reducing income, we can some how entice those who hold a record amount of capital back into spending by not priming the pump through government incentives. When the private sector is not spending, and people are out of work and not spending, who else is going to spend? The economy we've built is dependent upon consistent expansion and growth. When you have neither, you have nothing. This is not complicated math here. The fact there there seems to be a large segment of the population willingly suspending disbelief about conservative economic initiatives and principles is clear indication why we're going down in flames. If you're a student of history, you can why we are where we are now because a Republican-controlled congress made the same kind of demands on FDR, and if it weren't for the eventual wartime debt and spending, would have plunged us into a second great depression. Yet when you have a propaganda machine pumping out misinformation about what is really happening in the market place, it's going to remain this way until it either collapses or people finally question why we've built a corporate welfare state that pays to ensure it's participants can continue to game the system.
Explain to me using your logical model of economics why it made good economic sense for Barclays to manipulate LIBOR?
Thank you for establishing the answer to the ages-old question of "which came first, the economy or the eggs needed to feed the workforce?" Today, the present, not back in the good old neolithic hunter-gatherer days, we are in a stagnant economy because while there's record amounts of capital littering balance sheets, very few business owners are investing in expanding the economy, because there's no demand, and that's because because the majority of the segment of society which drives consumer spending has no money due to stagnant wages, higher energy costs, and subsequently is not spending like it used to. So there's your death spiral. You can talk about economic theory all you want, the current numbers available show a much different picture.
Remember what happens when Walmart sets shop in a small town.
Prices on many goods go down and everyone in the community effectively has a higher standard of living?
Just like everything on FOX News or in the WSJ is not factual or really news, not everything written in economic theory really happens the ways it's posited, or isn't mitigated by all sorts of presently unseen or dynamic variables.
Meanwhile good ol' brick and mortar lets you have the goodies in your hot little hands now and often work out better on returns.
Which also means a lot of the money made (or all of it, if it's a locally-owned business) stays in the local economy, which can mean families, schools, and your community in general benefit. Sales tax paid online goes into a state's general coffer and stays there, whereas part of the money collected locally, whether it's from a national/international chain or a local mom-and-pop store, goes back to the county/municipality where it was collected originally.
In fact, eliminating jobs while providing the same or better service is considered to be a top priority of economics in general. The less labor it takes to provide service X means the less cost it takes, as long as there's competition it means lower prices for consumers.
So Economic Theory 1, Actual Economy 0. Awesome.
Without jobs, who cares how low consumer prices drop for whatever reason, and who cares whether it's Amazon, Walmart, or the corner mini-mart owning online markets? No jobs mean no demand, which means no growth, which means no jobs, which means no demand. Rinse, lather repeat.
Note to Randroids: We got into this mess by lack of government regulation, not because of it. Don't believe me? Go ask Phil Gramm, or better yet, Phil Gramm's wife.
The issue is why people feel compelled to self-medicate. A beer or glass of wine or a dram of whiskey can be food and/or something to be enjoyed. Or it can be abused as a drug. Anything in excess, whether it be food, alcohol, weed, shopping, sex, exercise, etc, especially if it's being used to check out of the reality of one's life, is dangerous. Granted, pounding a bottle of Jack and running 10K may have opposite effects on the body, but if you're checking out, then you aren't dealing with the organic neurological and/or dysfunctional emotional issues.
Whether weed is more benign than alcohol hardly matters if your inclination is to wake and bake, slack at work, let the kids cook dinner for themselves while you sleep off a bong-hit or any of the myriad other chronic stoner check-outs.
I say treat emotional/mental illnesses as we would high blood pressure or any other disease. I bet if the stigma for treating behavioral health issues were removed, we'd see less in the way of substance abuse, and lifestyle diseases such as Type II Diabetes and obesity would start dropping in reported cases, because then we'd finally admit that the brain is the most important organ in the body, and its health governs much of the overall health of the body. We'd also notice a drop in child abuse, spousal abuse, personality disorders, and see a lot higher quality of life.